No I meant you and your friend had a contest to know who got to go where and you ended up in 'Murica. Bad luck eh?
Ahā¦ Well love makes people do irrational things 
I would much rather have ended up in the Netherlands, or Flanders, but it is what it is.
Random question,
How does loosing body fat effect fascia for the purposes of implants
Iām planning to try to drop as much as I can, and just wondering if Iām going to cause migration issues
I canāt answer your question with definite certainty, but hereās what I can tell you:
My installer told me after much consideration before implanting the flexEM in my back - which is where most of my fat is - that heās always hesitant to implant stuff where thereās a lot of fat below the skin because if the implant is set too deep, it might sink down into the fat. For my back flexEM, he made a special effort to implant it very close to the surface to prevent that.
In addition, Iāve been dropping a lot of weight fast lately (not intentionally) and the flexEM hasnāt moved.
So my guess is, if you have a lot of fat where your implants currently are and theyāre not moving right now, theyāll probably stay put if the fat goes away. But thatās only my guess. Skin flabbiness might become an issue if you really have to shift a lot of fat.
It also depends on how that fat is integrated. Abdominal fat in males tends to be well integrated into the fascia and organs and connective tissue, where in females it tends to be more of a layer. Bodies are strange.
oh fyiā¦ the testing page has been updated!
We tested 10 xNT units up to nearly 1500PSI with no damage!
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Yea donāt remind me, not looking forward to that as a possibility
But I figure surgeryās always an option, wether I can get insurance to cover it might be a fun fight though
Iām hoping it wonāt be that bad as, since I mentioned in another thread Iām not nearly as large as my weight suggests, I think I have a denser variety of fat
12 down, 60ish to go more, depending on weight vs muscle mass
Well you might get lucky: I dropped 120+ lbs and I have zero flabby skin. My doc reckoned itās because I did it while I was young enough - around 35-ish - and my skin was still flexible enough to take up the slack.
In theory Iām younger than that, but Iāve also had said weight for a bit, which I hear makes the loose skin more likely
I was fat from 12 yo to 35 (and a heavy smoker, and a heavy drinker), so thereās hope
Iām so sorry. I had to.
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Iām curious: those of you who have a Titan, can you do stuff thatās really rough for the fingertips without hurting (or ending up in the ER), like rock climbing, archery, playing the congas or the guitar, or do you limit your activities to crochet or computer typing? How careful do you have to be - if at all?
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@anon3825968 this has been asked several times before. There are people who lift weights with a titan and others who rock climb.
Titan finger install and weightlifting?
Titan install sharing thread
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Generally, I donāt notice unless I put pressure directly on the magnet. Of course my day to day is mostly sitting in front of a computer. The odd car work is not an issue. Mine is off to one side and about 1/3 the way from the last joint to the fingertip.
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Itās off topic, but heyā¦
I just picked up a SKS. Iām not nearly well enough versed in the minutiea of the SKS family tree to say exactly what it is, but Iām certain itās nothing rare.
It is:
Norinco
Has Bayonet Lug
Notched for blade Bayonet.
Iām wanting a custom stock for it, and thought maybe one of the gun nuts on here could tell me where to go looking.
I want the new stock to be exactly the same as the original, except. A.) Not beat up, and B.) 2 to 2-1/2 inches longer. I want it to be as original looking as possible otherwise, even down to using the original hardware, stamped serial number, butt-plate, and clean kit storage area.
Thoughts?
Donāt go full bubba with tapco, tacticool stuff, just donāt
Unfortunately, as much as in a gun aficionado , surplus isnāt my game so I canāt really give you a lot of advice, but there are many sks circles to be found
As far as stocks go, I canāt recommend anything āoriginalā but Boydās gunstocks is a pretty nifty custom laminate stock service thatās fairly painless
Select your gun from the list of of guns they have the dimensions on file for,
Select style, color, polish, (I think there a length of pull option, but I remember it not being very customizable)
Not the grade of stuff @anon3825968 used to make, but nice enough that it looks nice, but not so nice your afraid to mess it up
150-200 depending on options would be my guess, which depending on the whether it was marked up or not due to politics, could be more than the gun lol
I keep wanting a 10/22 in their āblasterā style, in nutmeg, and high polishā¦ but it always gets put off
That would highly depend on the location. Mine sits extremely well, almost at the very side of my ring finger, so I never really notice it.
In the beginning I was carefull, but it never hurt. Not climbing but multiple different sports involving hands, even falling on my hands was fine, the titan wasnāt the problem there .
Sometimes I feel it intensely and will move the finger, but thatās it.
Itās gotten to the point that I do not think about it, unless I feel it, itās titan so I dont really care, itās not like itās gonna fail.
Hey, lookie here what finally arrived from Czechia:
Two brand-spanking new RS232 long-range readers in full made-in-China glory, complete with the ever-present QC card that tells you itās been inspected by nobody at all. The QC cards arenāt stamped with the usual red ideogram though: I wonder if I should return the readersā¦ Or perhaps it means theyāre superior quality
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Holy crap! Of all the stupid things Brexit brought about, this one takes the cake:
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